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Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing · SOC 51-7042

Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing Salary in the Fargo Metro Area

Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025Fargo, ND-MN metro area

Figures describe the Fargo, ND-MN metropolitan statistical area as defined by BLS/OMB — the whole multi-county metro region, not Fargo city limits.

Median annual wage$46,530
Median hourly wage$22.37

Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing in the Fargo, ND-MN metro area earned a median of $46,530 per year ($22.37 per hour) as of the May 2025 BLS OEWS estimates. Pay ranged from $40,480 at the 10th percentile to $56,060 at the 90th. BLS estimates 130 people work in this occupation in the area.

Pay distribution

Half of Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing in the Fargo metro area earn more than $46,530 per year, half earn less; the middle half earn between $44,000 and $46,720.

Wage percentiles (BLS OEWS)
Wage10th25thMedian75th90th
Annual$40,480$44,000$46,530$46,720$56,060
Hourly$19.46$21.15$22.37$22.46$26.95

A percentile is a cut point: 25% of workers in this occupation and area earn less than the 25th-percentile wage. The median is the 50th percentile — half earn less, half earn more.

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How this area compares

  • Fargo metro areathis metro area
    $46,530
  • North Dakotastate (ND)
    $45,820
  • United Statesnational
    $43,380

Bars span the 25th–75th percentile (the middle half of workers); the tick marks the median.

The median here is +2% vs North Dakota overall and +7% vs the U.S. median for this occupation.

Compare with other areas

Where this metro sits nationally

$29,270$39,537$49,803$60,070Longview, TX — $29,270Morristown, TN — $31,270Knoxville, TN — $33,680Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR — $33,860Canton-Massillon, OH — $34,640Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL — $35,110Tuscaloosa, AL — $35,150Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR — $35,350Erie, PA — $35,360Logan, UT-ID — $35,390Birmingham, AL — $35,480Chattanooga, TN-GA — $35,580San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX — $35,700Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX — $35,730Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY — $35,910Oklahoma City, OK — $35,910Florence-Muscle Shoals, AL — $36,060Tulsa, OK — $36,210Memphis, TN-MS-AR — $36,340Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL — $36,720Richmond, VA — $36,790Madison, WI — $36,900Kalamazoo-Portage, MI — $37,090Billings, MT — $37,140Raleigh-Cary, NC — $37,200Lexington-Fayette, KY — $37,270Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA — $37,370Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN — $37,380Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL — $37,410Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC — $37,440Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL — $37,460Williamsport, PA — $37,550Winston-Salem, NC — $37,550Greensboro-High Point, NC — $37,560Tucson, AZ — $37,620Rockford, IL — $37,700Lewiston-Auburn, ME — $37,800Kankakee, IL — $37,850Rapid City, SD — $37,920Huntsville, AL — $38,010Albuquerque, NM — $38,020Fort Smith, AR-OK — $38,100Wichita, KS — $38,110Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC — $38,290Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC — $38,310Valdosta, GA — $38,340Sheboygan, WI — $38,440Columbia, SC — $38,530Syracuse, NY — $38,570Terre Haute, IN — $38,650Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA — $38,800Daphne-Fairhope-Foley, AL — $38,940Modesto, CA — $38,990Provo-Orem-Lehi, UT — $39,040Fresno, CA — $39,100Fort Wayne, IN — $39,110Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX — $39,200Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC — $39,260Roanoke, VA — $39,300Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC — $39,420Salt Lake City-Murray, UT — $39,430Asheville, NC — $39,530Yuba City, CA — $39,670Niles, MI — $39,790Ogden, UT — $39,820Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV — $40,130Kansas City, MO-KS — $40,160North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL — $40,190Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL — $40,210Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN — $40,370Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ — $40,440Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN — $40,560Akron, OH — $40,700Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, OH — $40,820Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV — $41,090Port St. Lucie, FL — $41,330St. George, UT — $41,390Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC — $42,070Rochester, NY — $42,150Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI — $42,360St. Louis, MO-IL — $42,370Charleston-North Charleston, SC — $42,490Florence, SC — $42,490Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY — $42,690Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN — $42,860Altoona, PA — $43,000Sioux Falls, SD-MN — $43,140Bangor, ME — $43,300Pittsburgh, PA — $43,420Appleton, WI — $43,610Lansing-East Lansing, MI — $43,620Wausau, WI — $43,640Columbus, OH — $43,770Worcester, MA — $44,100Springfield, MA — $44,250Green Bay, WI — $44,320Manchester-Nashua, NH — $44,480South Bend-Mishawaka, IN-MI — $44,530Spartanburg, SC — $44,560Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA — $44,690Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA — $44,740Elkhart-Goshen, IN — $44,790York-Hanover, PA — $44,800Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY — $44,810Reading, PA — $45,070Reno, NV — $45,370Durham-Chapel Hill, NC — $45,430Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI — $45,600Stockton-Lodi, CA — $45,630Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO — $45,650Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA — $45,660Lancaster, PA — $45,830Cleveland, OH — $45,870Omaha, NE-IA — $45,950Springfield, IL — $46,090Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA — $46,200Muskegon-Norton Shores, MI — $46,300Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD — $46,380Providence-Warwick, RI-MA — $46,420Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN — $46,480Fargo, ND-MN — $46,530Redding, CA — $46,690San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA — $46,730Boise City, ID — $46,750Savannah, GA — $46,750Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD — $46,850Chico, CA — $46,940Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA — $46,940Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, FL — $47,040Coeur d'Alene, ID — $47,350Portland-South Portland, ME — $47,360Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA — $47,390Eugene-Springfield, OR — $47,540Oshkosh-Neenah, WI — $47,610Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI — $47,720La Crosse-Onalaska, WI-MN — $47,780Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV — $47,990Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH — $48,330Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT — $48,580Salem, OR — $48,660Eau Claire, WI — $48,710Jacksonville, FL — $48,900New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ — $49,050Colorado Springs, CO — $49,140St. Cloud, MN — $49,790Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA — $49,850Boulder, CO — $49,860Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT — $50,000Bellingham, WA — $50,220San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA — $50,970Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ — $51,030Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA — $51,730Medford, OR — $52,390Bend, OR — $55,400Albany, OR — $56,180Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA — $56,180Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI — $56,950Longview-Kelso, WA — $59,550Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA — $60,070

Each dot is one metro area with a published median — hover any dot for the name and figure. Metros without published estimates are not drawn.

The Fargo metro area has the 39th-highest published median for this occupation among the 159 metro areas where BLS publishes it. Higher medians often track higher living costs — this is a pay comparison, not a ranking of where the job is “best”.

Keep exploring

Other occupations in the same SOC group with published medians here, largest employment first:

Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators$46,660Welders, Cutters, Solderers, and Brazers$61,140First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers$76,410Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers$50,230Bakers$36,900Electrical, Electronic, and Electromechanical Assemblers, Except Coil Winders, Tapers, and Finishers$44,710

Highest-paying metro areas for woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders, except sawings · Highest-paying occupations in Fargo Metro

About this estimate

These figures are survey estimates from the BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program — modeled from employer reports collected over three years and benchmarked to May 2025. They describe what employers in this area currently pay across all industries, not what any individual worker will be offered.

Employment counts wage-and-salary jobs in the occupation (self-employed workers are excluded). Estimates carry sampling error; percentile wages are rounded by BLS. Some values are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality or quality — suppressed values appear here as “not published”, never as zero. Read the full methodology.

About this data. Estimates are from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program, May 2025 release, retrieved from bls.gov/oes/tables.htm on July 24, 2026. OEWS estimates describe metropolitan/nonmetropolitan areas and states — not city limits — and are not designed for year-over-year comparisons. See BLS methodology, our plain-English methodology, and sources. CitySalaryData is independent and not affiliated with BLS.